I usually dont link to general news on my blog as I figure that Net users are pretty well (24-hrs) connected today, and hence they would already know that news by the time I tell them. But this item why personal web sites matter? on slashdot is interesting to me as I myself run a personal site (and I enjoy maintaining it). Nice discussion happening on /. , and as is obvious, some people think its for egoistic people's to run a personal webpage/site, whereas some others think that its quite worthwhile to have a personal webpage/site.